Designed Monomers and Polymers (Jan 2017)

Novel functionalized monomers based on kojic acid: snythesis, characterization, polymerization and evalution of antimicrobial activity

  • Mahnaz Saraei,
  • Gholamreza Zarrini,
  • Moshgan Esmati,
  • Leila Ahmadzadeh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/15685551.2016.1259832
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 1
pp. 325 – 331

Abstract

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Two novel acrylate monomers, [5-(benzyloxy)-4-oxo-4H-pyran-2-yl]methyl acrylate and {1-[(5-(benzyloxy)-4-oxo-4H-pyran-2-yl)methyl]-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl}methyl acrylate were synthesized by the reaction of 5-benzyloxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)-4H-pyran-4-one and 5-(benzyloxy)-2-{[4-(hydroxymethyl)-1,2,3-triazol-1-yl]methyl}-4H-pyran-4-one with acryloyl chloride in the presence of triethylamine, respectively. These monomers were polymerized using 2,2′-azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as the initiator in N,N-dimethylformamide:14-dioxane (10:1) solution. The thermal behavior of the polymers was investigated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The synthesized compounds were evaluated for their antibacterial and antifungal activites aganist bacteria and fungi using the disk diffusion method. The results indicated that some of these compounds demonstrated moderate to good antibacterial and antifungal activities.

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